transphobe

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Etymology

From trans- +‎ -phobe.

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transphobe (plural transphobes)

  1. A person who fears, hates or is prejudiced against transgender or transsexual people.
    • 1999, Gordene O. Mackenzie, "50 Billion Galaxies of Gender: Transgendering the Millennium", in Reclaiming Genders: Transsexual Grammars at the Fin de Siècle (ed. Kate More & Stephen Whittle), Cassell (1999), →ISBN, page 214:
      The object of scorn in the films are not transpersons, but the bigoted transphobes who are made to look like fools.

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